Los Angeles and UCLA are enormously rich intellectual environments, and the School of Public Affairs encourages faculty and students from other universities to use UCLA as a resource.  Visiting scholars are welcome at the School, further enriching a diverse intellectual environment of interaction among students and scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary and geographic backgrounds.

UCLA operates on the academic quarter system; visitors may be in residence in either the Department of Public Policy or the Department of Urban Planning for a minimum of one, but no more than four quarters. Most teaching and student activity occurs during the fall, winter, and spring quarters; the summers are quieter and devoted mostly to research.  For further information, please visit:

• The Visiting Scholars Program in the Department of Urban Planning
• The Visiting Scholars Program in the Department of Public Policy

Comprehensive information about research across the disciplines at UCLA can be found at http://www.research.ucla.edu/faculty